Have you ever been stuck on a playground merry-go-round? You know how it goes. You start slow, pushing with your feet to gain more speed until you are running. Then you finally jump on to the spinning merry-go-round holding on for dear life. That is when you find yourself stuck. On the one hand, the centrifugal force of the spinning merry-go-round threatens to throw you off. On the other hand, you hold on for dear life to the railing because you are afraid of what might happen to you if you fall off. And round and round the merry-go-round goes. When it stops, nobody knows. You are stuck, caught between wanting to get off and unwilling to let go.

This experience of being stuck on a merry-go-round often seems to be the way we live our lives. We are stuck, unable to change the same old patte…